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Record W2492261077

ANALYSES OF WEIGHT AND FAT VARIATIONS IN

2016· article· en· W2492261077 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Helmut C. Mueller, Daniel D. Berger

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAvian ecology and behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThrushGeographyRange (aeronautics)OrnithologyBustardEcologyBiologySouthern HemisphereHabitat
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper represents an attempt to derive useful information from data collected in the process of banding and recapturing migrant birds. The Swainson's Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata) was selected for this study because it is a long distance, nocturnal migrant and because it is the most common bird in our area in autumn. The paper is a series of analyses of weight and fat variations, occurrence, and fluctuations of both recaptures and previously unhandled birds. A number of hypotheses concerning various aspects of migration are presented and compared with the data. Some of the hypotheses are not entirely consistent with others; several interpretations are possible for some aspects of the data. The data for this study are derived from 5,580 handlings of 4,328 Swainson's Thrushes taken in a standardized mist-netting scheme at the Cedar Grove Ornithological Station in the autumns of 1959 through 1962. The Swainson's Thrush breeds from California, Colorado, the northern Great Lakes, and West Virginia north to central Alaska and central Canada. The winter range extends from southern Mexico to Peru and northwestern Argentina (abridged from the A. 0. U. Checklist, 1957). The breeding range of the Swainson's Thrush in Wisconsin is apparently confined to the northern tier of counties (Gromme, 1963). We have received four recoveries on Swainson's Thrushes banded in autumn at Cedar Grove: (1) at Montgomery, Alabama, in early May one and one-half years after banding, (2) at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in early May of the year following banding, (3) at Vernon, British Columbia, in early August 23 months after banding, and (4) near Caparrapi, Columbia, South America, in January four months after banding. The Cedar Grove Ornithological Station is located on the west shore of Lake Michigan some 64 km north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A 400 m wide strip of beaches abandoned by ancient recessions of the lake separates the intensively farmed red-clay-glacial till from the lake at this point (Figure 1). The thin soils covering the abanddoned beaches support a fairly dense stand of second growth forest (Populus, Betula papyrifera, Prunus serotina, Fraxinus) in some areas. Much of the area, however, is covered only by a brushy growth (Cornus stolonifera, Salix, Rubus, Alnus rugosa) or with grasses and Juncus balticus, and occasional blowouts of sand occur. Agricultural use of this land is usually limited to pasturing. The

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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